Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONDon’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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